Pickles v. State

MANN, Chief Judge.

There are two questions in this appeal, one of which we have recently answered in Platt v. State, Fla.App.2d 1974, 291 So.2d 96, Opinion filed March 6, 1974. Here as in the Platt case, there was a question whether the proof of value of articles stolen is sufficient to support a conviction of breaking and entering with intent to commit grand larceny. As in the Platt case there was no satisfactory recognition of the burden of the prosecution to prove the felonious intent of the defendant and, as in the Platt case, this conviction is rescued from reversal by sheer accident. The…